How do you choose among so many bird dog breeds? Well, the first step is thinking about your needs. What do you hunt? How often do you hunt? Will you train the dog yourself? Will a new dog be a family ...

While late-season pheasant hunting can be productive and is often rewarding, it can also be dangerous for our dogs.

The thing about old hunting friends is that despite politics, religion, economic status, team or school affiliations or any ...

Before you move on to the latest news from the Seahawks, would you be so kind to allow me a couple of minutes to brag about my dog? Sure, everyone is proud of their dogs. Whether the dogs are hunters, ...

THE SCENT OF SKUNK didn’t come off the bell for days, but that happens when your dog takes two close-range blasts in the face. Sam was wearing the bell on the morning my wife, Pam, first came hunting ...

To prepare the famous pheasant under glass dish, you first have to get a pheasant. Well, that’s been a problem for me this fall. I went bird hunting with my son a couple of times. The dogs did their ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Before Isaiah Osborne signed up for the military at age 17, before he went into active duty after graduating from New Ulm Cathedral High School, and before he was a crew chief on a ...

Getting old brings many irreversible life changes. Most of those changes I’ve taken in stride as unavoidable. But, the ...

From small Munsterlanders to English setters and Labrador retrievers, a veritable kennel’s worth of dogs scampered across southern Minnesota Saturday, the opening day of the state’s pheasant season.

This story, “Better Pheasant Hunting Alone,” was originally published in the October 1984 issue of Outdoor Life. Over the past several years, I’ve kept records on more than 100 pheasant hunts. During ...